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Stagemad Theatre company is to perform a Noel Kelly play, ‘Mid Term Break’ in the Coast Guard Theatre, Tramore. in November

More than 100,000 people from across the world have visited Bellaghy the home village of the late Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney in the last seven years.

Benign but not bland, temperate but not soft, the late poet is irreplaceable as a public figure

Many students in the UAE are enjoying their midterm break, which began on Monday, while others are looking forward to their half-term break starting from T..

If you are an expat living and working in the UAE, your child’s school holidays obviously need to be linked to any planned leaves you intend to take...

Ireland’s greatest modern poet won a Nobel Prize 27 years ago this weekend

Works at the Parnell Street car park in Thurles are set to get underway in the coming weeks. Local Fianna Fáil TD, Jackie Cahill, is among those to welcome the update, saying final designs are now being decided and that a contractor will be appointed by the Council “in the very near future”. The works […]

Several schools are offering a range of extra-curricular activities for the break starting this Sunday.

» Ciarán Quinn "For the NIO to try and co-opt Heaney is a disservice. I see also some unionist commentators have taken exception to the criticism of the NIO approach, bizarrely claiming that it is akin to saying that Heaney only belongs to nationalists. A ludicrous accusation and position." - Ciarán Quinn This weeks controversy over the use of an image of Seamus Heaney to celebrate partition has been another example of NIO arrogance.   First a confession. For years I didn’t get Seamus ...